Bred in Kentucky by
J G Boswell, she was owned by Major Barak G Thomas of Lexington, who he thought so highly of her that he named his Dixiana Farm
for her. "One of the most noted pre-Civil War matrons in
Kentucky," she was the dam of Florac (dam of the Kentucky Oaks
winner Florimore, Herzog, Fireball, Aureola, War Jig, and War Reel by War
Dance.

Dixie belongs to the Penelope branch of
Family 1 that traces to Tregonwell's
Natural Barb Mare. She died March 9, 1883.

Pedigree

Dixie

Sovereign

Emilius

Orville

Emily

Fleur de Lis

Bourbon

Lady Rachel

St. Mary

Hamlet

Consol

Plenty

Vamp

Langar

Wire

Notable Descendants

Sword Dancer (USA)ch c 1956 (Sunglow - Highland Fling, by By Jimminy).
Sire Line Bend Or.
Family 1-o. Horse of the Year in
1959, he won the Mayflower Stakes, the Belmont
Stakes, the Jockey Club Gold Cup, the Metropolitan Handicap, the Monmouth Handicap,
the Woodward Stakes twice, the Travers Stakes, the Suburban Handicap,
the Grey Lag
Handicap, and finished second for the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. He sired Damascus (b
c 1964) to help
keep the Bend Or sire line, via
Teddy (b c 1915 Ajax), alive.War
Relic (USA)ch c 1938 (Man
o' War - Friar's Carse, by Friar Rock). Sire Line
Matchem.
Family 1-o. Bred by Samuel D
Riddle, he won the Massachusetts Handicap, the Narragansett
Special, the Governor's Handicap and the Kenner Stakes. He sired Relic
(ch c 1945), influential in Europe, and Intent (ch c 1948), both of whom
were significant in perpetuating the Matchem
sire line via
Man o' War. War Relic died in
1963.